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  1. Extesian
    Welcome! This place makes reading Cosmere works so much better, and contributing to discussions and posting ideas adds to that 10 fold Alcatraz is not Cosmere but it is great fun! Is set on Earth but just a parallel universe version. And if by any chance your German (from the title), do you know Brandon will be in Leipzig this month? Of course you could be elsewhere in Germany (good chance) or I guess Austria or Switzerland (some chance). Or you could be from anywhere and just like the greeting (very good chance)
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    So up front, I haven't read this entire huge thread but I have read from @8bitBob's very handy big post onwards. So if what I'm about to say has been covered, I apologize. I love all the theorising even if it's gotten a little heated There's one WoB that makes me feel that the issue of identity is in favor of the idea that to compound you must have had your identity tied to the feruchemical charge, rather than it being accessible through a lack of identity. Relevant part in bold. So this says to me, with no proof but with implication, that you must have had the relevant feruchemical attribute yourself, even if you don't any longer (through it being spiked out). "I know how to do that". To me that's saying that yes you can burn the metal but the reason you can filter the power of Preservation through the feruchemy is because it was stored by you. It doesn't feel right that if someone else stored it, you burning it figures out the feruchemical filter. Very happy to be corrected
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    Additionally,
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    Interesting idea. Though it'd be even more useful if she was turned into a ferring, she could spend day after day just eating mountains of food, filling metalminds with gigantic amounts of nutrition, then tap then whenever she needs investiture. Assuming the conversion would work.
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    I-on to you. I was positive I'd be reVolted but instead I'm impressed with your ability to take a static forum and rAmp it up to something with more potential.
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    I way overthought the third one. I was trying to connect row 16, hair and 'is hard' to make s'hard 16 rows-hair (Shard 16 is on Roshar). And @Silverblade5, that was pretty exciting. I'm alternating between being direct or charging you with reckless use of an electronic medium. OHMygod Watt have you done.
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    Baon and Ialai went on a blind date. It didn't really work out. There was no connection and neither one was invested.
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    Agreed, I am just talking relativistic. But still if you want to be a cadmium savant you'll die long after your children. If you want to be a bendalloy savant you'll die long before your parents. Has its advantages for getting way more done in while things move slowly behind you for bendalloy, or getting to 'live' hundreds of years (Ender Wiggin style) for cadmium but relativistic effects are still a big factor to take into account for either.
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    A problem would be what happens to you while you're using them enough to become a savant. Bendalloy you'd get a whole lot done but time is passing for you quicker than others. You would die quickly relative to others. Opposite with cadmium. I suspect cadmium is the way some super old cosmere players live so long, just sit in a cadmium bubble for hundreds of years. Also there's a WoB that says these savants could attach bubbles to them while they're moving, that would be useful.
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    A couple work Lift prepared to be awesome. And then the murders began. Kelsier burned the eleventh metal. And then the murders began. But you're right, the rest of then already have the tense lead-in and it makes the additions pretty redundant. On the other hand it's glorious with the acknowledgements I first pitched the idea of later-era Mistborn novels to my editor back in 2006, I believe. And then the murders began. I finished the first draft of The Way of Kings in 2003, but I started working on pieces of the book back in the late ’90s. And then the murders began. THIS one has been a long time brewing. And then the murders began.
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    Yep I don't disagree with this. Just because Kel doesn't align much with their philosophy, meaning I don't think he founded them, doesn't mean he can't subvert them. It's still a theory worth considering and watching for more evidence for.
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    I like the connection and I can't refute it, but the purposes of the Seventeenth Shard do not seem to be too fit with Kel's nature. That does not sound to me like Kel, who is generally an even more reckless version of Vasher. I feel he's more a free agent who possibly recruits others to do his work.
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    This is quite interesting. Any idea if Korean-derived language is in other parts of Shin dialect? Aside from general interest in Brandon's linguistic influences I wonder if there is any Shin terminology that can be effectively translated like that and could help figure out more about Shin culture/beliefs.
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    Finally, a costume that brings out the color of my eyes.
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    It could mean unite the sapient races of Roshar, unite the Parshendi, the humans and the Aimians.
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    Ha. Rad Just one possibly pesky WoB So unless the suggestion is an alternate reality where this happened to Pangaea, the Super-continent in earth's history, there may be a problem. Oh also that Brandon has said the Cosmere is in a dwarf galaxy. But I like it anyway.
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    I like this @Blightsong. My big question is whether it can be done against the person's will. I suspect not with the nature of Honor, which is about being bound by your own choices generally. I think if you're right about turning Parshendi into Parshmen it's because 'they' agreed to it to be freed from Odium, and if the application of it is right in terms of binding the KR to the oaths it's because they also agreed to it to avoid being destroyed. But that yes when someone agrees a Bondsmith can make that bond magically enforceable. If a Bondsmith can do it forcefully I'd feel a lot more dodgy about it.
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    I think the issue is that Nightblood has no Connection to Preservation. An allomancer can do their thing because of that Connection, like a Surgebinder can do their thing through Connection to Honor/Cultivation in the form of a bond with a spren. Combine that with a very recent WoB saying that for Nightblood it makes no difference which metal an allomancer is using to feed him investiture and I think that shows Nightblood simply consumes investiture as food, and the effect of that investiture in the hands of a magic user has no difference. Even if Nightblood was given Connection to Preservation I feel it wouldn't work but can't rule it out based on what I've read.
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    I think a lot of the point of Szeth's truthlessness is to ask whether it's ok to follow a code of honor that's inherently destructive. But I think it could be magical. This is a world where Honor invested bonds (choices to bind yourself to something external. Combine that with the idea that intent and your own view of honoring a bond is important (for example the fact that a KR meeting their oaths is actually up to the interpretation of both that KR and their spren, that different KRs/spren could view the fulfilling of the oaths differently) and it wouldn't surprise me if Szeth was actually magically bound by the oathstone, if only because he believed himself to be). And maybe then that's why Nale waited til after death, or simply why Szeth was no longer bound once he knew himself to be Truthy.
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    I feel like it's not the case but I'm too tired to give a sub-standard answer to an interesting theory. One think I will note though is the true benefit of compounding is that you can burn the metalmind to get an increased benefit (10x I believe?) but then you can use your feruchemy to take that extra investiture and fill your metalminds again, the cycle continues and you have almost unlimited access. But if you can only burn it and not fill more yourself, and somebody else has to fill them for you, you lose that efficency and need armies of feruchemists to keep filling the metal minds and giving them to you to burn.
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    Ah you're completely right, how did I forget that they shatter? Thanks for getting that out of my mind quickly
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    Just spitballing here, but could the interference of the gemstones (assuming Szeth isn't wrong) be that Plate (at least, post-Recreance plate) is a fabrial and that the gemstones are different because they have spren trapped in them? We know fabrials are classed as a different magic system so could explain the interference and perhaps why it needs Stormlight.
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    You may be thinking of posts in the Q&A or cosmere theories fora? They don't need any spoilers which is why I like posting there series-specific fora need spoilers for other series.
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    I love your thinking and analysis @ROSHtaFARian2.0. I agree with you about Caution and that it can absolutely be a 'godly' intent, just as Odium and Ambition can seem like strange fits to what we think of as godly. I'm less sure of Revolution due to it's similarity with Ruin but I see your point that Ruin is the physical version (and doesn't need to be sudden dramatic change, it's more like the original Decay) while Revolution can be more sudden and cognitive. I think it's a great framework for a theory and filling in some of the gaps.
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    Hmm there was a philosophy of Aristotle about slavery being the natural state for some people, to say that it is better for some people who don't have the ability to reason properly (their 'souls' are sufficiently different from 'normal' humans) to be slaves. That's their natural state. But that for 'normal' humans slavery is not natural and shouldn't be enforced only by law or strength. It was a way to protect normal Greek citizens from slavery but justify 'barbarians' being made slaves. It's been confused sometimes with a Biblical verse. Not sure if that's what you're thinking of?
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